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Brief Bio:

Carolyn Smith-MorrisCarolyn Smith-Morris is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on chronic disease and the health impacts of culture change and acculturative stress in North America. She is engaged in several research programs among migrating Mexican workers, among poor African-Americans in Dallas, and for the Gila River Indian Community in Southern Arizona, a tribe that suffers from the highest recorded rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world. She published Diabetes Among the Pima in 2006, coedited Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness in 2010, and has several articles on diabetes, reproduction, health care ethics, and end-of-life care.

Department: 
Anthropology

Courses:
Health as a Human Right: Globalization, Health, and Cross-Cultural Ethics


Ethics Publications:

2011:Response to Journal of the American Medical Association Clinical Crossroads Online: "The UTSW DAT Response to the Case of Ms D"
2010: "The Baggage of Health Travelers" [PDF]
2006: "Questioning Our Principles: Anthropological Contributions to Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice" [PDF]

Recommended Reading:

Health and Human Rights: A Reader by J. M. Mann, S. Gruskin, M. A. Grodin, and G. J. Annas
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader by Mark Goodale
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights by Kemala Kempadoo.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination by Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer (Eds.)
The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local by Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
Ethics for Anthropological Research and Practice by Linda Whiteford and Robert Trotter

Recommneded Websites:

Anthropology and Human Rights – An Open Exchange
AAA Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights